Paminklas Janui Safarewicziui

Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian languages describing and examining more important. related works. In addition to these reviews, at the end of the book we find a comprehensive (184 positions) general index of literature: works published in Lithuania, Latvia and other countries by individual authors or collective works, continuous or periodical publications devoted both to general questions of Baltic linguistics and to one of the languages — Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian. True, one other detail of the proofreading should be clarified in the literature index: J. GERULIS. Old Lithuanian readings (p. 408: 20th position) =... readings; M. JONIKAS. The development of the Lithuanian common written language in the second half of the 19th century (412; 119) =... V. PAULAUSKAITE (412; 151) = V. PAULAUSKIENE; A. UBEKAITE (413; 176, 177) = A. UBEIKAITE. 3 Minor errors or other minor flaws do not diminish the value of the publication in question. "Baltic languages. Introduction" is a very carefully prepared and necessary book. It is a great textbook for those who study Baltic languages in German and other higher education institutions, who are interested in the history of these languages, and who want to learn the current Lithuanian and Latvian languages independently. The Lithuanian Language Institute is also grateful to the authors for the great work they have done and for receiving one of the first copies of this book from their hands. k kio Am žė MEMORIAL TO JAN SAFAREWICZ Happy teachers who have good, grateful students. A large group of such students was also the famous Polish linguist, professor at the Universities of Vilnius and Krakow, honorary doctor of these universities, Janas Safarewiczius (1904—1992), who, among other things, left deep traces in Lithuanian studies bars. However, the first among such grateful students should be mentioned first of all Wojciech Smoczynski, whose work and organizational skills are the fruit of an impressive work dedicated to the memory of J. Safarewicz “Analecta Indoevropaea Cracoviensia Ioannis Safarewicz Memoriae Dicata” (Edenda Cvravit Wojciech Smoczynski, Cracoviae MCMXCV). It is a collection of articles describing J. Safarevičius’ personality, his contributions to one or another field of linguistics, as well as individual studies of the problems close to the prominent Polish scholar. 4 A larger part of the published articles consists of papers read at the symposium "Language in Time and Space" held in Krakow on 5-6 April 1993 on the occasion of the first anniversary of J. Safarewicz's death. In total, 56 articles are published, in addition to a very carefully prepared bibliography of J. Safarewicz's many works and literature about him by W. Smoczynski. Articles are published in Latin; in English, French and German. Of course, it is not possible to not only discuss, but also list all the articles published here in a short annotation.” We will mention only those that may be more interesting for Lithuanian language researchers and those that are directly related to J. Safarewizcius’s scientific legacy. j From the latter field published: Article by Mariano Plezia (Plezia) about J. Safarewicz’s Greek and Latin studies (* De Ioannis Safarewicz i 216 studiis Graecis atque Latinis”, p. 11—14), F. Slawski's about two unwritten J. Safarewicz's books ("On two unwritten books of Jan Safarewicz”, p. 15—18; here the author meant J. Safarewicz’s researches on the verb factor, articles ir jo on the Slavic protévyne, balty—slavy, italy—slavy language relations), St. Urbanczyk about J. Safarewicz’s contribution to Polish studies (“Jan Safarewicz’s contribution to Lithuanian studies”, p. 27—34), H. Popowska-Taborska’s on the problems of ethnic history (“Polish studies”, p. 19—25), A. Sabaliauskas’s on the Polish scholar’s studies of Lithuanian studies (“Jan Safarewicz’s contribution to Lithuanian studies”, p. J. Safarewicziaus darbuose ("Problems of ethnic history the works in of Jan Safarewicz”, p. 35—40) ir M. Karpluk article dedicated J. Safarewicz's research onomastics, on p. 41—45). We can be pleased that Professor J. Safarewiczius was honored with his interesting articles by a large group of Lithuanian linguists. The articles are: S., Ambrazo "On the origin of the feminine nouns of the Baltic languages with the suffix *-(1)e-" ("On the origin of nomina feminina with the ending *-(į Je in the Baltic languages“, p. 47—50), V. Ambrazo "Baltų kalbų bendratis iš sintaksinės rekonstrukcijos požiūriu“ ("Der baltische Infinitiv aus der Sicht der syntaktischen Rekonstruktion”, p. 51—60), S. Karaliūno "Praindoeuropieciy “hartk'o- ‘lokys’ baltų kalbose" ("PIE “hartk'o-‘- bear’ in Baltic”, p. 189—196), B. Stundžios "Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos mišraus tipo verbų kirčiavimo dėsningumai“ (”Regularities of the accentuation of mixed-type verbs of Standard Lithuanian”, p. 401—408), S. Temčino "Tipologinis * ukamienių adjective transformation paralelizmas lietuvių ir slavų kalbose" (”Typological parallelism of *u-stem adjective transformation in Lithuanian and Slavic”, p. 443—44T7), Z. Zinkevičiaus "Apie Mažvydo raštų polonizmus” (”Uber die Polonismen in Mazvydas’ Schriften”, p. 545—550). Some articles on foreign linguistics are also dedicated to the problems of the Belarusian language. These are A. Bammesberger's "Greek ei against Lithuanian est 'you are' and Old Lithuanian eis: 'you go'" ("Griechisch el gegeniiber litauisch est 'du bist' und altlitauisch eis: 'du gehst'", p. 65—73), P. U Dini's "A propos du vieux sl. ssbors", p. 147—151; reconstructed balty-slavy *sombor, cf. Russian cobop "sobor, assembly", Lithuanian sambarés "duties, charges or money", Latin suobara 'duty'), R. Eckert's "Alte lettisch-slawische Ubereinstimmungen", p. 153—171), A. Holvoet's "On the evolution of the passive in Lithuanian and Latvian", p. 173—182), G. Michelini's "Uber die Stellung des Objektes in der Postille von Bretkunas- ", p. 249—256), W. Sedzicka's "On Baltic and Slavic agricultural terminology", p. 365—370). Other articles dealing with linguistic problems may also be of interest to scholars of Baltic languages. Among such articles, I would like to mention in particular: L. Bednarczuk's "Substrate and the theory of linguistic contacts" (”Substrat et théorie des contacts linguistiques”, pp. 75—88), T. Czarnecki's "On the problem of the oldest German borrowings of the Polish language from the German” (”Zum Problem der altesten Lehnworter des Polnischen aus dem Deutschen”, pp. 109—121), 217 W. Manczak's "Critigue de la théorie des laryngales", p. 237—247), St. Stachowski- 's "The role of the Greek language in the history of the Ottoman-Turkish language" (”Die Rolle des Griechischen in der Geschichte des Osmanisch-- Tiirkischen”, p. 377—385), W. Stefaiiski's "Some remarks concerning the pronoun endings of the Indo-European languages" (”Quelques remarques concernant la flexion pronominale en indoeuropéen”, p. 393—400), K. T. Witczak's "Prothetic vowels in the other Anatolian languages of the Hittites" (?Prothetic vowels® ir in Hittite and other Anatolian languages”, p. 495—502) ir kt This collection of articles is only a ne beautiful tribute to the famous Polish linguist, a scientist of very wide interests, a man of bright memory, but a significant contributiir on to those fields of į philology in which he was su Janas Wojciech Smoczynski, the author of this collection, o deserves the sincerest thanks of his colleagues. į Algirdas Sabaliauskas ABOUT LATGALIEČIUS IR JŲ LANGUAGE Maybe many will be surprised, but even the Latvian ambassador to Lithuania Alberts Sarkanis said on one occasion that Latgalians! Lithuanian language is. easier to 3 learn than the Latvian common language. We know very little about these Latgalians, who sometimes even tend to consider their own language as a distinct Baltic language, rather than a dialect of Latvian. O they are kind of ne our brothers of only common ir origin, but common destiny. After all, they are Catholics ir like most Lithuani- — ans. Ju Many priests of Lithuanian origin worked in the region. For more than du centuries this land has been Lietuvos ir Part of the Polish state. Together we became part of the Russian Empire. Together we lost the press in Latin script. The Lithuanian "school of hardship" corresponds exactly to pi the Latgalian "moates skola ratina" ("mother's school at the wheel"). O jų in government schools there was a sign: | "Ilo AATBHILCKK FOBOPUTL cTporo BOCHpenaercs’. į Iš the Latgalian problem is devoted by the University of Latvia Baltic languages ir Publication of the Latvian Literature Departments "Baltu filologija. V. For the Land of Writings” (Atb. red. Dz. Paegle. Riga, Part of 1995). the articles published here are reports read at the conference of the 1994 m. famous 18 Latvian linguist Arturo Uozuolo (Ozols, at a 1912—1964) traditional conference dedicated to his memory, which this time had as its theme 'Latgale and the Latvian language of Latgale'. Individual articles published in the publication are of interest to ir Lithuanian language and Lithuanian history researchers. Historians, no be doubt, is interesting E. Mugurevičius' article "Written sources of archaeologicir al material about the history of the ancient ją Latgalians" ("Rakstitie avoti archeologijas un materiali par latgalu senako vesturi”, Here is discussed the p. 7—12). Russian chronicles Norova (Neroma,: 1 Latvians use the term latgalieši ‘Latgalians’, because the term latgalt latgaliai’ in this literature means the ancient Baltic tribe, which lived in both the Baltic Sea and the Baltic Sea. In Latgale, both It is the ir name given to the state of Latvia. ir | Norkūnas Z. Friends, never foes. An interview with the Latvian Ambasi sador to Lithuania Mr Alberts Red. Lithuania in the World, 1995, 3, 18. 218